Orablo

Au téléphone · 1 of 1Week of 13 – 19 Sept

Spelling your name on the phone

On the phone, the office clerk can't find your file and asks you to spell your name letter by letter.

These ten words help you spell your name out loud on the phone, including épeler, lettre and majuscule. Each one comes with its pronunciation and a sentence you can actually say.

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The ten words10 words, 10 sentences

  1. 1
    épelerto spell/eple/verbTo say a word by giving each letter one after another.The first é is closed and the middle e is dropped: 'é-plé'.
  2. 2
    nomsurname/nɔ̃/nounThe word by which a person or thing is called.
  3. 3
    prénomfirst name/pʁenɔ̃/nounThe name given to a child at birth, placed before the family name.The final m is not pronounced: the ending is nasal, like in the French word bon.

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The sentences

  1. 1

    Est-ce que je peux épeler mon nom ?

    Can I spell out my name?

  2. 2

    Vous avez bien mon nom et mon prénom ?

    Do you have both my first and last name?

  3. 3

    Vous avez inversé mon prénom et mon nom.

    You've swapped my first name and my last name.

The same situation in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German.